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Tag: community organising

PREPARE FOR IMPACT – Australia’s climate risk reality check

8 October 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 567 is Neil Plummer, who discusses Australia’s new national climate risk assessment

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FORCE OF LIFE: Reinventing our world with a senior uprise, peace of mind, pride, and awe

1 October 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters 2 comments

Interview with Danish author Tor Nørretranders – exploring what it means to act in service to life on Earth.

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Rethinking the path to change

30 September 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

If we want laws that protect life on Earth, we first need to nurture a society that treasures life above profit, purpose above endless growth, and connection above division.

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Geelong Connection Café to strengthen community resilience

26 September 2025 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

At our September gathering, a small group of locals in Geelong made an important decision: our long-running Climate Café will now be known as the Geelong Connection Café. Why the change? Because words matter. While climate is central to our concerns, the word often carries a weight of crisis and

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Days of sun, sustainability and solutions

17 September 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 565 is Ruth Blackhirst from Geelong Sustainability, organiser of Sustainable House Day

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Crafting climatesafe communities

13 July 2025 Mik Aidt Recommendation, World affairs One comment

A new movement is reframing the climate conversation to be not around guilt, or blame, or carbon calculators net-zero targets and climate science, but around meaning, connection, and joy.

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RICHER THAN BEFORE: Building renewable economies

9 July 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour are Wayne Wadsworth (Wadzy), and Marama Grace Brownsdon (Mims).

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Because local matters

25 June 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 554 is Rob Eisenberg, founder of Local Matters, a new platform for building political accountability.

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Cinematic call to reconnect with nature

18 June 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 553 are Jan Cossar, president of the Port Phillip EcoCentre, and Deborah Sykes, co-founder of Electrify Southside.

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Involving citizens in the green transition is key

5 June 2025 Mik Aidt Educational

A new OECD report shows how trust, transparency, and participation can help governments accelerate climate action.

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Recent Posts

  • Democracy, diesel and the true cost of fossil fuels
  • The body count of fossil fuels
  • Democracy is failing the climate
  • DEMOCRACY AT A CROSSROADS – can we reconnect and respond?
  • From backyard trees to community oil – the story of the Barwon Oil Barons
  • From climate emergency to festival of life
  • RESHAPE OUR WORLD – from positivity to regenerative communities
  • From persuasion to connection – a theory of change for the climate reset
  • EARTH DAY 2026 – voices from ocean to earthmark
  • Tuning in to Earth Day at The Pulse
  • BE COLLECTIVE – power, climate and the necessity of cooperation
  • POWER UP – reclaiming energy, democracy and community
  • POWER OF IMAGINATION in a world on edge
  • RUN FOR COUNTRY – ice cream in a fight against fracking
  • FESTIVALS OF CHANGE – from climate worry to community action 
  • TAKE ACTION FOR EARTH – defending the swift parrot
  • BE DIFFICULT – balancing the scales for climate justice
  • When the emergency becomes our new reality
  • FORCE OF LIFE: Inner work as catalyst for outer change
  • Being a little batty – about responsibility and belonging
  • Be ready for the climate reset
  • Staying cool, staying safe: what electrifying our homes really means
  • Heat, flight and presence – an interview about Bats and Being
  • From bushfires to community power – a radio conversation on 94.7 The Pulse
  • Australian cowardice at the highest level
  • Meaning that will move us
  • When survival meets policy failure
  • These climate disasters are not an accident
  • Denial meets reality: Victoria enters a state of climate disaster
  • Paid misinformation, global inequality and permaculture progress in Africa
  • Geelong Advertiser: Paid misinformation on climate
  • A YEAR IN SONG: The soundtrack of The Sustainable Hour 2025
  • CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
  • FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery
  • In kindness, respect, understanding and trust

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